Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. Abdallah b. Umayya. fl. AH 75-77 / AD 695-697. AR Drachm (31mm, 3.60 g, 3h). MRW (Marw) mint. Dated YE 65 = AH 77 (AD 696/7). Good VF.

CNG Islamic Auction 2
Lot: 9. Estimated: $ 10 000

Arab-Sasanian and other Pre-reform issues, Silver

Sold For $ 15 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

Pre-reform issues, Arab-Sasanian. Abdallah b. Umayya. fl. AH 75-77 / AD 695-697. AR Drachm (31mm, 3.60 g, 3h). MRW (Marw) mint. Dated YE 65 = AH 77 (AD 696/7). Obverse: ‘Abdallah / b. ‘Umayya, in Arabic, in two lines before bust / Reverse: Bactrian word ambēro in first quadrant of margin. Malek, Arab-Sasanian p. 401, fig. 14.1.4 (this piece). Hephthalite countermarks in first and fourth obverse marginal quadrants. Good VF. Toned. Of the highest rarity and believed the only published specimen.

‘Abdallah b. Umayya was the son of Umayya b. ‘Abdallah, appointed by his father to the governorship of Sistan in AH 75. Captured by the local Zunbil ruler of Bust, he was reportedly ransomed at a cost of 300,000 dirhams. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the caliph ‘Abd al-Malik b. Marwan took a dim view of this debacle, ordering that ‘Abdallah b. Umayya should be stripped of his governorship. ‘Abdallah then joined the rebellion of ‘Abd al-Rahman b. Muhammad against al-Hajjaj b. Yusuf, but was defeated once again by the Zunbil and killed in battle during AH 77.

The final winners of all CNG Islamic Auction 2 lots will be determined during the live sale that will be held on 27 October 2022.

Winning bids are subject to a 22.5% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 25% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and stable previous version of Chrome and Firefox.